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When word spread across the blogosphere that Nancy Silverton was planning to open a hamburger stand in the original Farmers Market in Los Angeles, my reaction was: well, of course she is. Nancy made her bones by redefining (and refining) bread in Los Read More...
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Two decades after he opened his LA landmark Campanile with his then-wife Nancy Silverton, Mark Peel has a new cookbook called New Classic Family Dinners (written with Martha Rose Shulman) – an unexpected title from a chef famous for his refined Read More...
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The Bel-Air's famous swans will be taking a trip this fall. Photo: courtesy of the hotel As we recently reported , Los Angeles' Hotel Bel-Air will close September 30 for an 18-month renovation. Since its conversion to a hotel in 1946 (it was originally Read More...
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José Andrés Photo: Jason Odell Since the opening of The Bazaar by José Andrés in Beverly Hills' SLS Hotel , this hydra-headed assortment of restaurants (Bar Centro, Rojo y Blanca, Patisserie, Saam) has been the hottest Read More...
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photo: Yajico The word "noodle" comes from the Latin “nodellus,” meaning "little knot,” maybe because of the way they get all twisted up in the bowl. But noodles have come to mean many things to many people, most of them Read More...
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Let us consider the turkey, that curiously hyperbolic fowl that an uncommonly large number of us will be forced to consume tomorrow. Turkey is a creature that one either loves, or doesn't love, with only a very few left sitting on the proverbial fence. Read More...
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Let's talk about hobbies. Some people collect stamps. Some people build model airplanes. Some like to clean the barnacles off their sailboats. I go on diets. In fact, I'm on a diet right now. This strikes some people as odd because I'm only Read More...
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One goes to the shrine at Lourdes in order to be healed. One travels to Vichy to take the waters and recover from the sundry ailments that assail the body and soul. But one goes to the Santa Barbara's La Super-Rica Taco to be born again in the bosom Read More...
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Chili Peppers Photo: Phil Zrimsek A recent story in London's Telegraph told the sad tale of a fellow in Edlington, Doncaster, who accepted a bet to make a chili so hot no one could eat it. Thirty-three-year-old Andrew Lee won the bet – he was Read More...
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Steven Kaplan in France, where he investigated collective bread poisoning for his latest book Photo: courtesy of Steven Kaplan Good bread can be hard to find. At least it is if you've got the lofty standards of leading bread historian Steven Laurence Read More...
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We know that two incidents do not make a trend. But still... First, Hans Locher , proprietor of the Storchen Restaurant in the resort town of Winterthur, Switzerland, announced that he wanted his stews, soups and sauces to be prepared with mother's Read More...
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Photo: Courtesy of Philippe the Original On October 6th, Philippe the Original will celebrate its 100th anniversary with bands, speeches and a rollback of prices to 1908. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fans will show up to pay homage to the oldest continuously Read More...
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Browsing through the online edition of the Times of London the other day, I came upon a seemingly fascinating story titled "Top 10 Ways to Forage for Free Food" . It's a guide (of sorts) inspired by an interview with British food writer Read More...
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Crawfish Photo: Isaac Wedin Even in a land of Curious Culinary Trends, the new wave of Asian-Cajun restaurants that's swept across SoCal is an eyebrow-raiser. Its California incarnation seems to have begun in the Vietnamese community of Westminster Read More...
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One problem with living in a ''global village'' (as Marshall McLuhan so succinctly defined our world) is that eventually regional and ethnic differences begin to fade away, and a sort of one-world grayness sets in. Standardization and Read More...
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